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Giorgio Agamben

“One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good. What is found after the law is not a more proper and original use value that precedes the law, but a new use that is born only after it. And use, which has been contaminated by law, must also be freed from its own value. This liberation is the task of study, or of play. And this studious play is the passage that allows us to arrive at that justice that one of Benjamin's posthumous fragments defines as a state of the world in which the world appears as a good that absolutely cannot be appropriated or made juridical.”

Giorgio Agamben, The Omnibus Homo Sacer
tags: law, play, study
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The Omnibus Homo Sacer (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) The Omnibus Homo Sacer by Giorgio Agamben
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